‘Kids’ Archives
Pumpkin Bars
Ingredients: Bars: 4 eggs 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar 1 cup vegetable oil 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 15-ounce can pumpkin Icing: 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened 2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar 8-ounce package cream cheese, [...]
Deviled Eyeballs
Prep Time: 15 Mins Cook Time: 15 Mins Ready In: 30 Mins Servings 12 Ingredients: 6 eggs 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard (such as Gulden's®) 1 teaspoon yellow mustard 1 teaspoon white sugar salt and pepper to taste 6 black olives, cut in half 2-3 drops blue food coloring [...]
Teachers Are Entitled To Voice Their Opinions Too
No sooner do I get done applauding a parent for creatively addressing her son's failing grades and general lack of concern for getting an education; I read about a teacher who called out students on her personal blog and was suspended for it. The reasoning against doing both of those things is the sake of a child's self-esteem according to the [...]
Mom Puts Son To Work On Street Corner
I am not a fan of the news in general but last night a story caught my ear. A mother in Tampa, Rhonda Holder, was fed up with her son's failing grades and FCAT scores so she did something about it. What she did was put her son on the street corner for 8 hours with a sign. The sign reads: "I did four questions on my FCAT and said I wasn't [...]
Spanking: Effective Discipline
Smack in the middle of the "why are kids violent" issue is spanking. The groups against spanking want you to believe that spanking teaches violence. I happen to disagree and you can see why here at We Don't Teach Kids Violence. Do away with the theories and just look at the facts and you will see that babies are inherently violent and display [...]
We Don’t Teach Kids Violence
I wrote an article not long past that spanking doesn't create violence and showed that the results are pretty much consistent with that conclusion. People disagree and that is their right to disagree. They present arguments that spanking does create violence and the reason we are seeing an increase in violence has nothing to do with not [...]
Why Fear A Teacher
Teachers are an authority figure feared not only by students but by many parents as well. This fear doesn’t come from the teacher’s influence on the child’s grade. The fear for parents has been hardwired into their brain from when they were in school. Kids are taught not to question authority or teachers from an early age. It sticks with a [...]
Can I Put My Child On A Vegetarian Diet?
Due to concerns over where food is coming from, what is going into foods and childhood obesity, many parents are opting for vegetarian diets for their children. Gone are the days when pediatricians objected this type of diet and provided little assistance to parents wishing to use a vegetarian diet. Now pediatricians have become more educated [...]
They Made Me Yell At Them
Yesterday was the kind of day that made me feel like I have completely and totally failed at being a parent. I know people will say kids are kids and not to stress it but I am stressing it. Yesterday, I don't know who was in my house and in my kitchen but it wasn't my children. It is like aliens took over their bodies, minds and souls. To [...]
Response To Spanking
I wrote the post Spanking Doesn't Teach Violence - The Proof Is In and the response has been overwhelming. I should say the private response. I have gotten tons of emails agreeing with my general point on the issue. I have also gotten tons that disagree. Fact is there are many people who agree with spanking as they have seen the results of [...]
